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Oh, and lump-wise, I saw the Doctor on Monday and she referred me to the appropriate clinic, so now I have an appointment to see a specialist on the 27th. (The NHS can move quite fast when it needs to :) )

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A few more musical links:

Funk covers of Linkin Park hits. The happy kind of funk. (via YT sidebar)

Tiny Puppet Sound spins up a 1-hour set of French house in a Korean workplace breakroom. Puppet DJ = joy. (via)

Tycho’s Burning Man sunrise mix for 2025: Joie de Vivre. Hopeful like the sunrise. (via following Tycho)

(Meanwhile, I’m glad to see that Krill Waves Radio is still putting out the chill.)

---L.

Subject quote from Been Undone, Peter Gabriel.

prettygoodword

plimsoll (PLIM-suhl, PLIM-sohl) - (UK) n., a canvas shoe with a rubber sole, a sneaker/trainer.

Thanks, WikiMedia!

Also known by other names. Used primarily for indoor physical activities, but not as much as formerly as the flat sole has no arch support, unlike more modern sports shoes. The name, though -- Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) was a Bristol merchant and politician who devised the load line marks painted on the sides of ships. The marks on the soles included patterns that reminded people of the most prominent load line mark is ⦵ (or o), and so the shoe was named after the marks named after the man.

---L.

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It's approximately two weeks since we had the heat pump put in, and I know I promised an update on how it is going :)

I thought it would be a bit colder, but it's not. We have been so toasty that we had to set the thermostat down a degree.

I was also worried that there might not be enough hot water in the tank that DH could have a shower in the morning and I could have a bath in the evening. Probably - I thought - we'd have to boost the hot water with the supplementary immersion heater if we wanted a bath full of hot water in the evening.

But no, the hot water is actually hotter with the heat pump than it was with the boiler, and the tank is hot enough throughout the day that there is enough left in the evening to run a pre-bedtime bath and more.

The cost of running it seems to be about equal to the cost of both electricity and gas that we used for heating the house, which DH seemed to think was good, although not as spectacular a saving as I expected. Still, it means that we are no longer dependent on oil as a household, and that is a step toward a less fossil-fuel based world, while not being worse for us in any way.

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Title: Shane's Tattoo on AO3
Artist:

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Rating: Gen
Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Ilya Rozanov
Notes: Made in Procreate for the tattoo-style challenge. The second in this pair.

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Time I would've spent writing this evening was spent on cooking risotto for lunch and filling out tax forms as best I could. I opened the document and poked at it a bit to feel something and say I'd at least poked at it, and that helped me relax from the taxes enough I can think about doing something else with the night. Not much, but something else.

It's probably just going to be a couple days' of Stardew Valley, though.

Current Mood: uncomfortable
Current Music: nothing now

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This famous post is doing the rounds again:

my favorite thing i’ve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like “the eight winds cannot move me” blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes “FART” (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and the guy was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says “wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake”

This story is so Chinese.

It’s a real incident, btw: the guy was Su Shi, a Song dynasty poet/artist/essayist/statesman sometimes better known by his art name Su Dongpo, the friend was Chan (Zen) master Foyin, the abbot of a temple across the lake he was staying, and 屁 means both “fart” and (idiomatically) “nonsense.” Very Zen.

Edit to clarify: Foyin was not just a friend but Su Shi's master, who taught him meditation. Which means my man was crossing the lake to chew out his Zen master, and somehow thought this was going to go well for him. Smh.

---L.

Subject quote from Cruel Summer, Bananarama.

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basque (BAHSK) - n., a close-fitting bodice, especially one that extends below the waist; the part of a bodice or corset that so extends.

Today used mainly of lingerie, but historically outerwear. From French, from a type of close-fitting women's jacket, almost a bodice, adopted from traditional Basque clothing.

---L.

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a Canada goose, sitting on grass, looking peeved

The geese have returned! This one was NOT happy to see me.

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Despite an assortment of kids and adults sick with a bad cold, I managed to make four pies for pi day: pumpkin chiffon (this has meringue mixed in with the pumpkin mixture to make it fluffier, it's the only pumpkin pie I ever make), cherry (we had frozen cherry pie filling already, so this one was easy), chocolate (it's just pudding in a graham cracker crust), and for the first time, lemon meringue. The lemon meringue turned out pretty good except that the meringue topping shrank and pulled away from the crust, so it ended up like a fluffy island on a yellow lake. Still tasted good!

We've now watched up to episode 36 of Guardian. The ancient past episodes were very fun! I'm a little worried about watching the final few episodes because I know it's not going to end well. I'm in theory still reading Record of the Missing Sect Master but tbh I'm considering dropping it. It's very slow moving and feels like at least half (this is an exaggeration) the content is other characters reacting to the couple-ness of the main couple, which. I guess is a trope that some people like (a lot of people like, judging by some of the fanfic out there) but it is not my thing at all. Also it's doing this thing where it feels like at this point, both the mains are on the same page re. a lot of the hidden information, but the author's still holding it back from the reader just ...because? I think if you want to a dramatic reveal later on some things need to be a mystery to the characters who care about it, too. Anyway. A lot of the mysteries and secret identities and such, which should be right up my alley, feel more artificial here than they have in other books. So I should probably just drop it and read something I'll enjoy, instead.

I did manage to work on some projects, too! I modeled/printed some attachments to help build a sewing frame, as well as an adjustable hole-punching template! ~~I even worked on some actual books too.~~ And I got my assignment for this year's cnovel bookbinding exchange, which. I am going to have so much fun with this.

larryhammer

For Poetry Monday:

“The evening darkens over,” Robert Bridges

The evening darkens over
After a day so bright
The windcapt waves discover
That wild will be the night.
There’s sound of distant thunder.

The latest sea-birds hover
Along the cliff’s sheer height;
As in the memory wander
Last flutterings of delight,
White wings lost on the white.

There’s not a ship in sight;
And as the sun goes under
Thick clouds conspire to cover
The moon that should rise yonder.
Thou art alone, fond lover.

While Bridges was Poet Laureate 1913-30, I confess I mostly think of him as Hopkins’s university friend and literary executor.

---L.

Subject quote from The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, written by Ewan MacColl, sung by Peggy Seeger. (Roberta Flack covered it later.)

prettygoodword

kigurumi (ki-guh-ROO-mee) - n., a full-body costume of a mascot or cartoon character; full-body cosplay of a human cartoon character with realistic proportions paired with an anime-style mask, or sometimes just the mask itself; a set of onesie pajamas of a cartoon animal.

All three types of costumes, and the word itself, come from Japan -- when I jotted the word in my queue, I was thinking of the last:

skunk kigurumi